Before the invention of the printing press around 1440, books were painstakingly reproduced by hand in the monasteries of Europe. Bobbio Abbey “had one of the greatest libraries of all the ...

An e-bike adventure through the 'rare beauty' of the West Asian nation ...

Bhutan's enchanting monasteries, including Taktshang Monastery on a cliff in Paro Valley and Punakha Dzong at the confluence ...

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

Here, Mother Maria del Carmen (at left) and Sister Virginia stand by a dessert table at a meeting of nuns from nine monasteries of the Conceptionist Order. This story appears in the November 2016 ...

Archimandrite Athanasius (Nos) has two obediences in the Church: he is the abbot of the famous monastery of St. Onuphrius in Jabłeczna, and the dean of all Orthodox monasteries in Poland. Although the ...

The Nicaraguan dictatorship has forced the Poor Clare nuns to leave their monasteries in Managua and Chinandega in an action described by a well-known researcher as a ...

However, the Church set very high standards of cleanliness, so medieval monasteries were places of good public health. close public healthThe health of the population as a whole, and methods used ...

I also found official data from the government and relevant institutions. The interviewees, who came from poor families, were grateful to Buddhist monasteries for educating them and providing them ...